Hey, sorry for not posting for two weeks. I’ve been busy. I don’t have a lot of time to post right now, but I’ll try to give a brief rundown of things running through my head (and I feel like numbering more than doing title headings, so that’s what I’ll do):

1. Someone is going around stealing Kerry signs off of doors. We had a Kerry bumper sticker taped to our door, and it disappeared. I found the backing on the stairs, but no sign of the actual sticker. The bumper sticker that was on the apartment across from us is gone, too, as are several others in the building, and it’s getting annoying. Political opinions aside, that’s just a stupid thing to do. Darby decided to get back at them by writing on our message board: “We’re still Kerry fans. With or without the sticker. So, HA!”


2. Speaking of Kerry, as I said before, the Newark rally was great. Liz was there, so she and I stood together. Half of Denison had to be there as well. Kerry was introduced by John Glenn, which was really cool, and Kerry’s speech was great. A lot of what he says make sense, and he backs things up with facts and practicality. I also like how he trusts his supporters enough to not make them sign loyalty oaths (Has anyone else heard about the Bush loyalty oaths? It sounds rather sketchy to me). This is the first time I’ve put this much time, effort, money, and emotion into a campaign, and I hope to God that it pays off. This country is so screwed if Bush is re-elected. Speaking of which, there weren’t that many protesters. It seemed to consist of a few anti-abortion people (one of whom looked to be hiding behind his sign, which was kind of funny), and a small group of bored-looking kids. We were told to ignore the protesters, so I did, but I met the woman who was in charge of “counter-protesting,” which seemed to consist of people carrying around huge Kerry/Edwards signs made out of bedsheets. I took some pictures at the rally, and I’ll post some as soon as I get the film developed.


3. As if that wasn’t great enough, Howard Dean came to Denison two days later, and yes, I met him and got his autograph. He’s a very engaging speaker and I wish it could’ve been televised or something, because he said some things that I think are important for people to realize. The Denison Film Society was showing Fahrenheit 9/11 last weekend (I asked if that was planned or coincidence, but apparently it was the only date in which the film reel was available). I wanted to go to it, but I had to go home for a doctor’s appointment. Oh well, I’ve seen it before, and it comes out on DVD pretty soon.


4. The first weekend back, Liz, Mandy and I went to the X-Treme Afternoon on the campus common. We played Laser Tag, which I had never done before. The first time, I sucked and got a pathetically low score, but I was also being trailed by somebody who would shoot me the instant my gun reset (in the version we were playing, your gun would lock up for seven seconds if you got shot). The second time, I kicked ass and got the highest score. I’m not sure how I did that, but it was awesome.


5. I’ve got the first Inuyasha movie on DVD. Yay!


6. My VCR died, and there’s a tape stuck in it.


7. Last, but certainly not least, please go wish Laura a happy belated birthday. She turned 20 last Saturday (yeah, her birthday’s September 11, but her grandpa’s birthday is December 7, so it must be some sort of family curse)

I guess that’s it. I’ll try not to let two weeks go by between posts this time.

The Kerry speech today was awesome. I'll have more details later, but for now I'd like to strongly encourage everyone to watch the evening news tonight. Odds are they'll cover this speech. You probably won't see me, but on the stage behind Kerry you'll see anywhere from 1-4 members of the Denison Democrats (you'll be able to tell by the shirts), as well as one of my professors from last semester (he's the only Asian guy on the stage). Bye for now!

Well, I’m back at Denison and into my first week of classes. So far, so good, I guess. For those of you who feel like stalking me (yeah, right), here’s my class schedule:

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday

New Media 9:30-10:20

Sound Recording and Editing 11:30-12:20

Dream and Fantasy in East Asian Literature 1:30-2:20

Tuesday

New Media Lab 11:30-1:20

For once, it’s a pretty light schedule, and I don’t have any classes on Thursdays. I’m living in an apartment this year with Darby, Susannah, and Mandy, and so far we’re getting along really well. Mostly I’ve been doing Denison Democrats stuff. Howard Dean is coming on Sunday, and there’s a good chance I’ll meet him at the reception afterward. I’m going with the Denison Democrats to see John Kerry in Newark tomorrow, and that’ll be awesome (Yay!). To make things even better, we’ve got VIP seating (between the general seating and the stage). Also, it’s going to be the first speech he gives after Bush’s speech at the Republican convention, so it’s likely to get media attention. So if you watch the evening news tomorrow night, you might just see me in the crowd.

I’ve been seeing a lot of Liz this week. She’s graduated, but she’s still living in Newark and both her parents work at Denison so she can visit rather easily. Plus, we have her Playstation and her DDR games, so she has incentive The next time she comes she’s supposed to bring the third Inuyasha movie so we can have fun with that. I’m currently trying to get my roomies interested in Inuyasha, and so far it seems to be working. Speaking of which, the first Inuyasha movie comes out on DVD Tuesday.

Right now Darby’s reading an article on Hinduism for her art history class, and it’s about 90% wrong (She lived in India all last year, but even I can spot big errors in this article and I’m not exactly a scholar on eastern religions). She also got a map of Asia for this class where she had to label certain countries and regions. Two of the countries weren’t even on the map, which included the USSR as a country. It also had Tibet as a country instead of a region, and Pakistan was half the size it’s supposed to be. Darby doesn’t have much confidence in this course.

Well, I guess that’s all for now.